Wehr's Dam has been a fixture along the Jordan Creek in South Whitehall for more than a century. Built of timber and concrete like thousands of dams in waterways across Pennsylvania, it has outlived by more than six decades the grist mill it was built to power. But the dam's proximity to Wehr's Covered Bridge, one of the handful of historic wooden bridges in the Lehigh Valley, gives it a goose-bump appeal that few others generate. Visitors are drawn to the cascading sound of water at Covered Bridge Park and the picture-perfect setting of the bridge by the dam. They describe it as nothing short of majestic, even magical. It attracts picnickers, youth groups and scouts....

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